Transition Strategies
Transition Strategies

Author: H. Hungenberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-07-16

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1403907714

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The transition process of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, which started more than a decade ago, has been the focus of much attention for both practitioners and scholars. Few studies however, address management issues involved in the transition process and no study has, until now, assessed the strategies and tactics which individual companies have pursued over the past decade as part of their adaptation process. This book fills this gap and will leave the reader with a better understanding of the adaptation process at single firm level.

Recasting East Germany
Recasting East Germany

Author: Chris Flockton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1136324909

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The transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition since 1990.

Between State Capitalism and Globalisation
Between State Capitalism and Globalisation

Author: Gareth Dale

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9783039101818

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This book is an exploration of the economic history of the German Democratic Republic, with an emphasis upon its confrontation by and contribution towards economic and military competition on the world stage. Beginning with an analysis of the Soviet bloc as a state-capitalist formation, the GDR's economic history is charted, with detailed examinations of the challenges to Soviet-style autarky that were posed by the globalising world market, as well as of GDR policymakers' attempts to use Western imports and credits as a 'whip' to spur growth. The book's central section consists of an exploration of the ambivalent attitudes of East German policymakers and industrialists towards their West German counterparts in the 1980s, as the whip was transformed into an ever-tightening noose of debt. Here, a prodigious range of secondary sources as well as hitherto unpublished documents from the archives of the old regime are drawn upon to document the means by which relative economic decline and dependency upon Western institutions came to constrain the options available to the East German nomenklatura. Finally, this study analyses the political economy of the 1989 revolution and unification and of post-unification Eastern Germany.

The Plans That Failed
The Plans That Failed

Author: André Steiner

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 178238314X

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The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy’s starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR’s lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.

Transition in Survival: Enterprise Restructuring in Twenty East German and Hungarian Companies 1990-1997
Transition in Survival: Enterprise Restructuring in Twenty East German and Hungarian Companies 1990-1997

Author: Enese Lieb-Doczy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1351740547

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This title was first published in 2001. This work features different companies and their change in situation between 1990 and 1997. The author focused on changes in each company's vertical integration; its integration with and relationship to its investor; changes in its human resource policies and the general handling of labour shedding; changes in its product range, production methods, product markets and competitive situation; and the regional effects of FDI and changes in the company's procurement policies. The study comprises mainly of manufacturing companies with a few construction companies included to examine issues arising from localized company operations.

Privatization in East Germany
Privatization in East Germany

Author: Mr.Dieter Bös

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13:

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This paper deals with the privatization, restructuring, and liquidation of East German industrial firms. A partnership model is suggested for privatization where the Government’s property trust (Treuhandanstait (THA)) is made a silent partner of the private investors. The application of a general scheme of wage subsidies is rejected in the paper. Furthermore, the paper argues against restructuring policies of the Government’s property trust and proposes to set decreasing limits on the trust’s finances for the years following 1993. The decreasing financial inflow will force the Government’s trust to close firms, and will also signal the commitment of the Government to liquidate the trust itself by, say, the year 2000.

The East German Economy, 1945-2010
The East German Economy, 1945-2010

Author: Hartmut Berghoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1107030137

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The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.